Tag: New York

Adam Roberts Is Particular About His Fish

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:00:21 +0000

Illustration: Maanvi Kapur

In Adam Roberts’s debut novel, Food Person, a young woman is abruptly fired from her job at a food magazine and ends up ghostwriting a cookbook for a problematic TV actress — “hungover, flaky, shallow, and — worst of all — indifferent to food,” as the book jacket puts it.

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NY Times Publisher Laughably Claims His Paper ‘Reported Deeply’ On Biden’s Decline. It Did The Exact Opposite

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:31:26 +0000
A.G. Sulzberger wants to rewrite the record on how The New York Times failed to cover Joe Biden's decline. He can't.

This Cocktail Tastes Like Pork Roll

admin — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:00:17 +0000
Photo: Jeff Brown/
The highly partisan debate over the proper name for the overgrown hot-dog-like meat logs from Trenton, New Jersey, has the potential to start fights.
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Say Au Revoir to Mah-Ze-Dahr

admin — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:05:00 +0000
Photo: Grub Street
Mah-Ze-Dahr, the high-end bakery known for its cheesecake and brownies, has been given the boot from its West Village location. A two-week eviction notice for the business was posted in April, and the storefront is now dark. As of last week, a notice was posted to the bakery’s website stating that there is an “e-commerce shipping hiatus” and orders will resume “next week.”
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The New York Times Wants Mothers To Bow To The Fear Of Regret. Christ Has Something Better

admin — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:13:07 +0000
There is no freedom in constantly questioning your existence, wondering if your achievements are good enough by some vague feminist standard.

First came baby, then the boutique; 18 years later, this owner is the mother of retail survivors

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:48:19 +0000

Opening her storefront at the age of 23 with a newborn daughter, Meagan Doyle faced double duty as a first-time mother and budding entrepreneur. Eighteen years later, her baby is now grown — and Mom is coming into her own as a retail survivor and seasoned business owner.
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Advocates want a startup-boosting Missouri angel investor tax credit (but they’ll have to beat legislature’s ticking clock)

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:12:46 +0000

With about a week left in Missouri’s legislative session, business advocates at NEXT Missouri are making a final push for lawmakers to pass a bill creating a state angel investor tax credit — legislation its backers say could catalyze early-stage business growth and keep entrepreneurial talent and essential startup capital rooted in the state.
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Socialite Sally Quinn, In ‘Fear’ Of Trump, Needs A Welfare Check

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:19:47 +0000
Of Trump presidency 2.0, my favorite sub-genre by far is the neurotic Democrat who publicly exhibits her severe depression, which is very obviously rooted in her deep-seated control issues. For that reason, ancient Washington, D.C., socialite Sally Quinn’s latest column in the New York Times is a wildly fun read. Quinn, who previously proclaimed her […]

If Bill To Legalize Assisted Suicide Advances In New York, Miracles Like J.J. Hanson’s Would Be Lost

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:47:55 +0000
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The New Wegmans Restaurant Is Entry-Level Sushi

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 11:00:35 +0000
Photo: Grub Street
I’ve never met a Stop & Shopaholic or a dyed-in-the-wool Gristedean, but I definitely know some Wegmaniacs. The Rochester-based grocery chain inspires a kind of fanatical devotion that few retailers can match — besides Publix in Florida and maybe Trader Joe’s, I can’t think of one.
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2025’s Low-Talent Met Gala Was Just Like The Modern Democrat Party

admin — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:41:09 +0000
Democrats lost the working class, and their latest effort at gaining it back is to — hold on, let me check my notes — oh, turn the mega-rich Met gala into DEI “resistance” programming. It’s true. The highly exclusive annual fashion exhibition took place in New York on Monday, the theme this year being “Superfine: Tailoring […]

The City’s Best New Pancakes Are Stacked

admin — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:45:00 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
Spots like Clinton St.
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Lucien Smith Gets a Job

admin — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:00:49 +0000
Photo: Zander Taketomo
No one would accuse Lucien Smith of being original, least of all Smith himself. “I’ve always role-played as a painter, role-played as a fine artist,” he says, swiveling in a chair in his studio. “I don’t know how much of it is genuine and how much of it is an act.
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Texas Monthly Welcomes Five New Hires

admin — Fri, 02 May 2025 16:25:50 +0000
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Aimee France Prefers Her Butter Cold

admin — Fri, 02 May 2025 10:00:05 +0000
Illustration: Adam Mazur
Aimee France, maker of artfully bumpy and leaning cakes with ingredients like Earl Grey, calendula, and cognac–tonka bean buttercream, didn’t necessarily expect to become a full-time baker.
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